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... World ; which , as it creates in us the moft profound Reve- rence of the Almighty and wife Creator , fo it frees us from the mean and narrow Thoughts , which Ig- norance and Superftition are apt to beget . How great an Enemy ...
... World ; which , as it creates in us the moft profound Reve- rence of the Almighty and wife Creator , fo it frees us from the mean and narrow Thoughts , which Ig- norance and Superftition are apt to beget . How great an Enemy ...
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... World , and order of the Planets . Tho it may be , they were affifted by the Egyptians and Chaldeans . But whoever they were , that first made these bold fteps in this Noble Art , they de ferve the praise and admiration of all future ...
... World , and order of the Planets . Tho it may be , they were affifted by the Egyptians and Chaldeans . But whoever they were , that first made these bold fteps in this Noble Art , they de ferve the praise and admiration of all future ...
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... World with his Book of Light and Co- lours . The Fluids which involve our Earth , viz . Air and Water , are the next great and confpicuous Bo- dies , that Nature prefents to our view : And I think we know little of either , but what is ...
... World with his Book of Light and Co- lours . The Fluids which involve our Earth , viz . Air and Water , are the next great and confpicuous Bo- dies , that Nature prefents to our view : And I think we know little of either , but what is ...
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... World is made plain to fenfe , as was before to reafon . The Telescope has alfo improved the manner of Astronomi- cal Obfervations , and made them much more accu- rate , than it was poffible for them to be before . And these ...
... World is made plain to fenfe , as was before to reafon . The Telescope has alfo improved the manner of Astronomi- cal Obfervations , and made them much more accu- rate , than it was poffible for them to be before . And these ...
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... World to apply Arithmetick , Aftronomy , and Sailing , without which the Needle would be ftill ufelefs . Juft the fame way in the other parts of Mathematicks , the Pre- cepts that are practifed by multitudes , without being understood ...
... World to apply Arithmetick , Aftronomy , and Sailing , without which the Needle would be ftill ufelefs . Juft the fame way in the other parts of Mathematicks , the Pre- cepts that are practifed by multitudes , without being understood ...
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Page 93 - ... not received a fall, and some of them two or three. I was assured that a year or two before my arrival, Flimnap would have infallibly broke his neck, if one of the King's cushions, that accidentally lay on the ground, had not weakened the force of his fall.
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